Food Crisis and Sustainable Food Security in India

Bairagya Ramsundar, Sarkhel Jaydeb

Abstract


The world population is rising rapidly over the growth of food grains and as a consequence food crisis arises. There are now more than a billion malnourished people in the world meaning that almost one sixth of humanity is suffering from hunger. Fertility of land has been reduced due to over exploitation, excessive use of chemical fertilisers, insecticides and pesticides. Due to indiscriminate deforestation the amount of rainfall reduces and land erosion takes place. Natural calamities like droughts, floods, cyclones, global warming, melting glaciers, raising sea level etc. are increasing and environment is degraded. As a result the production of food grains decreases and made food crisis at a global level. Not only that sometimes food crisis arises not due to food shortage, there is enough food in the stock though some people are in starvation due to some failure of public distribution system. The crisis not food crisis, it is the policy crisis of the government. This is a tragedy from food surplus to food scarcity. This paper concentrates on sustainable food security in the long-run in a sustainable eco-friendly manner to cover the benefit every person not only for the present but also for the future generation.

Kew words: Sustainable, public distribution system, body mass index, bio-fuels, green revolution, below poverty line


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